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Last summer one report said Keel's pop-time to second was quicker than any big leaguer's. Now that I read he throws side-arm, wondering if they meant "popping" his UCL...
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Great -- we're counting on an odd duck and a worried-he'll-suck. But how credible can Fangraphs really be, when they somehow project the Sox' MLB team -- as is -- better than 16 other clubs in 2024... while allowing more runs per game than only 6, yet scoring more per game than everyone, except the Braves, Dodgers and Astros (yes, even slighter ahead of the Verdugo pinstripes).
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He does play on a team in the basement after all; even if there's a drop ceiling with acoustical tiles, it's no higher than eight feet. Varitek played in a basilica of Sox history, with a cathedral ceiling with open skylights where guys like Martinez and Lowe regularly fired projectiles to pick off flocks of bats from Louisville. -
I'm confident I'm coming into this season in the worst shape of my life. But at least I'm realistic to admit this may be as good as it gets.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Mazz is just going OFF on the Sox today... in one 10-minute rant, he repeated his delivery more than the Red Sox' entire starting notation: "They did nothing this offseason! Nothing! NOTHING!! Not. Even. Trying! NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!" -
Not saying I'm against it, but banning technology anywhere for anything nowadays seems absurd. And I'm a dinosaur who can't even touch a dumbphone without it face-timing random people (I've never consciously used FT in my life) -- so imagine telling that to actual young competitors? It's like banning cellphones from schools -- how is that working out, when parents want access to kids 24-7... Remember back in 2019, when NY was beating up on the Sox, and Cora noted -- not with displeasure -- that the Yankees were paying better attention to details? It was a contest between AC and Beltran, who was hired to "coach" the Yanks for obvious reasons...
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Isn't your answer just like the Astros -- the only ones who really bother people are those who benefit the most from perceived unfair advantages.
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We know that -- but like a certain group of radical lawfakers, it seems inevitable that history will not look favorably on the most infamous misdeed that occurred while Bloom was in charge.
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The serious baseball fans I know feel much more betrayed by the players who broke rules to inflate their bodies and deflate statistical records cherished and memorized for a century, rather than by one team of players in one year who pissed off the Dodgers and Yankees for doing a better job than they did at an accepted part of the game that has been in existence since it was invented.
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Good post. And I bet if you surveyed 100 casual Red Sox fans, the most typical reply would be: "Because they suck!" But if you asked 100 more serious fans, those who not only watch or listen to most games and can recite most Sox line-ups, but don't post on or read daily forums, the consensus just may be: "Because he traded Mookie!"
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One has been tried since the invention of baseball; the other since before "striking out, while trying to hit a home run" was invented, and could be used as a metaphor (but not necessarily always in public).
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In a somewhat related tangent to these lists: it's no coincidence that the Red Sox contended and even won titles with the first group, who were all high performing starting pitchers at the time of acquisition (counting the expenditure of top prospects traded for Sale). The second group were all either mediocre and/or rehabbing bounceback candidates... and we got what we paid for.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hey -- I read all the prospect ratings on the other thread, and we do have two (2) pitchers in the entire system whose ceilings project to be mid-rotation starters! -
Ever since I joined this forum, posters have stressed annual budgets. And I have ignored them, mainly because a lot of the totals every year reflect contracts proffered by former CBOs signed by players either retired, useless because of injury, or on other teams that were subsidized by Boston to take them. As a fan, when it comes to my club spending, I'm only concerned each year about who the CBO signs or extends in that particular year. Some might call that impractical, while others might say worrying about the future is even more impractical. And I totally agree with you that Henry's CBO the past five years did not spend wisely -- underspending on needs, overspending on busts, and just spending time doing anything but using valuable trade resources to improve the Red Sox.
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There is a vas deferens between the first 15 years of current bonership than the last five...
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Schreiber is the nucleus they're building the cell around right now. They don't want to waste his prime. Or his chromosomes. -
Today is the first official day when pitchers and catchers report to Florida. It's traditionally a big day for baseball fans, especially New Englanders who can see light at the end of winter. But the Red Sox are now so irrelevant that there's hardly any mention of it in local news. Happy V-Day (today's contest: identify the V-word... vapid, vacate, vague, venomous, vetc.)
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Yep, but in reverse. After about a decade of timing 12-foot arcs, I joined a new over-30 hardball league... and basically sucked at both. Way behind a real fastball, I finally got my first hit; laid one down.
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Last time there were this few .300 hitters, MLB lowered the mound by 33%. If they would do that again, might as well just have pitchers throw from a rubber on flat ground -- like in softball. Who here wasn't a better batter in slow-pitch softball than in hardball?
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It's really, really difficult to say, because if he told us what he really, really knows, we'd all give him a difficult time.
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... for deciphering secret codes created to deceive opponents. Whether it's zoom lenses on video cameras or telescopes that have been documented in use by baseball teams for at least 70 years, remember this: the fingers or taps or whatever catchers flash can mean whatever the batteries want them to mean. And they can even change them, at any time! It's not forbidden, in any rulebook! Same thing with the secret codes flashed by base coaches to baserunners... or from managers in the dugout to players on the field... or from one infielder to another... or even behind his back to outfielders paying attention to what's in front of them instead of someone flashing something else in the third row of the grandstand.
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With one quote, AC may have just got himself an early axe when the team nosedives, but don't think he doesn't realize exactly what that means: a few months paid leave, and the freedom to field phone calls from prospective employers who really are trying to win.
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I understand the sentiment, but every year the Red Sox refuse to sign good starting pitchers takes another year off the life of the tendons and ligaments of elbows and shoulders of their own diehard posters... not to mention existing pitching staffs.
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I don't look at a Monty signing as making the Sox a playoff team this year nor do I consider giving him market value as any sign of Boston going all-in. Instead, it's a natural move the Sox should make to upgrade a hideous starting rotation, put a more legitimate product on the field, and most importantly, provide innings to stabilize the entire pitching staff -- allowing others to develop as either starters or relievers (and for those who do go to the bullpen, give them proper rest to prevent burn-out, and preserve arms for when the Sox really are contenders).
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Probably, he only won five games in the postseason, and the Rangers won all six that he started. Texas also made some summer moves -- like trading for Montgomery, who won also won key games in the playoffs. Not that the Red Sox couldn't make a big trade at the deadline -- which they've only done never so far in the Bloom Era. The Rangers also made a big fall move -- promoting Evan Carter. That's the kind of move Red Sox fans are told is the one reason to keep watching...
